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K.T. Billey

K.T. Billey is an Icelandic-Ukrainian Canadian writer, poet, and translator. She is an assistant editor for Asymptote. Her translations of poems by Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir are forthcoming in The Harvard Review and the Council for European Studies' literary magazine CritCom. She recently reviewed Oddný Eir's "The Blue Blood" for Asymptote and her translations of poems by Bragi Ólafsson appear in Circumference.

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K.T. Billey: Utmost Import: Instagram & the Future of the Icelandic Language

By K.T. Billey July 29, 2016

A charming mini-gallery contains pictographs that break down the etymology of Icelandic words for interested followers.

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